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He didn't, that person became so, partly out of their own choice.

Please translate this.

Of course. No, sorry, I don't think a psychopathic murderer is worthy of love in any common sense of the term.

Guilty = having committed a sin.

And yet until a few seconds ago you were saying enjoyment is your biggest value. Sounds like you lied to us ;)

No they're not unguilty in any way. I don't know where you take that from, D never suggests otherwise. Failure to love is exactly what they're doing.

I don't see how what D says disagrees with A&A. So then they are immoral. So this must be false.

:s - no I don't think so at all. Smerdyakov is guilty of murdering Fyodor Pavlovich, Ivan is guilty for teaching Smerdyakov that God is dead (for then...

So what if they're not understood? That suddenly stops making them immoral or what? :s

Morality describes the rightness or wrongness of actions. As such, for morality to be relevant the person must undertake the respective action through...

This is NOT about translations being called into question. This simply cannot be found in the sutras.

Well you haven't really answered my questions...

How should we decipher the irrational forces and unconscious motives? And furthermore, if they are irrational and unconscious, then it would follow th...

No it's absolutely not true for others. On the contrary, if you know that knowing an answer would deflate your will to find out, you will postpone kno...

Yes, and if he said that, would they not lose the will to discover the truth? Of course they would!

Right, so then regardless of whether one is weak or strong, morality is the same?

I answered that question. Because then people wouldn't be curious to find out anymore, they'd have a clear answer given.

These words aren't found in the Bible - they are philosophical in origin, and they indeed are attributes of God that emerge from the Biblical narrativ...

Citations please. So far you're just offering us your blank assertions, one of which I've proven to be false.

Ah, so if things really are that the strong burns the weak (because he's the strong, and hence can dominate the weak), then that's moral according to ...

What insufferable torment? Religion for me is full of joy! 8-)

"God" is a word. If you remove a word, what remains is the reality underlying that word. Because if he gave an answer, people would be satisfied, and ...

Show me proof that he agreed please. :s - I'm not talking about this, but if this "force of nature" of yours injures people around him, then he's immo...

No, because God is not a man.

And what was Nietzsche's solution? The strong burning the weak in exchange? :P Catholicism =/ Christianity.

Yes, but that's a false assumption. Not everyone wants power. The character of Father Zossima from Dostoevsky's novel doesn't for example. So a natura...

There's nothing moral about writing a great piece of music. Success (and the praise of others) is not the same as morality. Ah, and I thought you were...

:s And believing in the judgement of the "great man" certainly sounds like morality right? This great man of yours could trample under his feet everyo...

No, he didn't think it's better to LET people. He thought it's better to encourage people to do so. That's false, and I don't see how you're going to ...

:s So you're no longer interested to talk when I ask you for a reference to something you stated as fact... interesting fellow you are.

Ok then, can you please cite me the sutra where it is? And what does Buddha being poisoned have to do with translation of the sutras?

Because they thought conveying that God exists would be a better way to motivate people to seek God. Buddha thought that being silent would be a bette...

How would you know what he found or didn't find?

No it doesn't. It may be very beneficial, but impossible to communicate through words. Because it's meaningless to answer questions of existence with ...

Sure, but there was no mention of Islam and/or its proximity to EO in this thread :P I never said we can interpret verses on their own, I'm not an adv...

Because the truth of God cannot be adequately conveyed through language.

I think you meant to write this in the other thread? :s :P

It gives you all the sources in the video. They are written out for you with the respective dates! The assertion I referred to is from here.

Out of nowhere? :s With absolutely no indication that such extremism was even possible he thought about a way to prevent it... I don't buy that.

Because he wanted people to see for themselves.

God wasn't used to justify any atrocity in the name of religion back in Buddha's day, so how do you suppose that he would have come to believe that? W...

Agreed. Okay, also agreed :P

You do realise this is clearly false - so in a society where everyone believed in God/gods you're saying that the Buddha thought that other things wou...

I don't call him so, he called himself that way ;) Does it have to do with the fact that Wagner was a Christian and Nietzsche thought of Christianity ...

False, this is absolutely what Kierkegaard would not say. K. is not an immoralist like Nietzsche. Quite the contrary, the highest man achieves a moral...

>:O I'm not sure, but Putin is by far not the only Eastern Orthodox who I've heard say that. However, I haven't studied comparative religion with rega...

Yes, but not through reason alone. Experience, and trying the path is also a valid way of doing that - as is listening to your intuition, which does n...

>:O There is a reason why I underlined "for himself" in that quote, which you don't seem to have put in your quote of me. Christians do not need Buddh...

Since Thanatos and Terrapin are impossible to have a conversation with - or at least so it seems to me - I will address your point directly rather tha...

Why are you cowering from answering this question: